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In this May 19, 2012, file photo, actor Shia LaBeouf poses during a photo call for Lawless at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. LeBeouf got into a second altercation in a London bar over the weekend. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

In digging into LeBeouf’s creative works, the internet has found several examples of further plagiarization in the star’s comic books consisting of reworded works by Charles Bukowski and French writer Benoit Duteurtre. For example, in his self-published “Let’s ------- Party,” LeBeouf writes:

Insightful, but Chuck Bukowski beat him to the punch by about 40 years with his poem “assault”:

"Lorca was shot down in the road but here in America the poets never anger anybody. the poets don’t gamble. their poetry has the smell of clinics. their poetry has the smell of clinics. where people die rather then live. here they don’t assassinate the poets they don’t even notice the poets."

But it’s not just LeBeouf’s creative works that show signs of creative borrowing: his website isn’t original either. The Comics Journal’s Dan Nadel says LeBeouf’s “About” section on his website is a direct rip of the “About” section on Nadel’s PictureBox website.

And, finally, there’s the tweets. Usually, an apology requires a heartfelt examination of the situation you’ve gotten yourself into, followed by a swallowing of pride and an eventually explicit request for forgiveness. LeBeouf, however, is skipping all that with variations on great apologies from history. Take, for example, his use of Tiger Woods’ 2009 apology:

I have let my family down, and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.